mitten

See also: Mitten

English

Etymology

From Middle English myten, mitaine, from Old French mitan, miton, mitaine (“mitten”, literally “half-glove”) (Modern French mitaine), from Frankish *mitamo, *mittamo (“half”), superlative of *mitti (“midpoint”), from Proto-Germanic *midjô, *midją (“middle, center”), from Proto-Indo-European *medʰy- (“between, in the middle, center”). Cognate with Old High German mittamo, metemo (“half, in the middle”), Old Dutch medemest (“midmost”), Old English medeme (“middling, average, median”, literally “midmost, in the middle”). More at mid, middle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪtn̩/.
• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪʔn̩/
• Rhymes: -ɪtən

Noun

mitten (plural mittens)

1. A type of glove or garment that covers a hand with a separate sheath for the thumb, but not for other fingers, which are either enclosed in a single section or left uncovered.
2. A cat's paw that is a different colour from the main body.
3. (colloquial, dated, as "the mitten") A romantic rejection; dismissal of a lover.

   to give someone the mitten; to get the mitten

Translations

type of glove

• Afrikaans: moffie (af)
• Armenian: թաթպան (hy) (tʻatʻpan)
• Bashkir: бейәләй (beyələy)
• Belarusian: пальчатка f (palʹčatka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: palcová rukavice f, palčák m
• Danish: luffe c, vante (da) c
• Dutch: want (nl) f
• Esperanto: duonganto
• Faroese: vøttur m
• Finnish: lapanen (fi), kinnas (fi), rukkanen (fi)
• French: moufle (fr) f, mitaine (fr) f
• Georgian: ხელჯაგი (xelǯagi), თათმანი (tatmani)
• German: Fäustling m; Fausthandschuh m
• Greenlandic: aaqqat
• Hungarian: egyujjas kesztyű
• Icelandic: vettlingur (is) m, lúffa (is) f
• Irish: mitín m
• Italian: muffola f, mezzoguanto m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 벙어리 장갑 (beong'eori janggap)
• Latgalian: kulaiņs m, kulaiņi pl
• Latvian: dūrainis m, dūraiņi m pl
• Luxembourgish: Moul f
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: lájish
• Norman: mitaine f, miton m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vott (no) m

  Nynorsk: vott m

• Polish: mitenka (pl) f, mitynka f
• Russian: ва́режка (ru) f (várežka), рукави́ца (ru) f (rukavíca)
• Slovene: palčnik (sl) m
• Southern Altai: меелей (meeley)
• Spanish: manopla (es) f, mitón (es) m
• Swedish: vante (sv) c, tumvante (sv) c, bälghandske c
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: рукави́чка f (rukavýčka)
• Welsh: miten f, mitens m pl
• Winnebago: kšaikšų

Verb

mitten (third-person singular simple present mittens, present participle mittening, simple past and past participle mittened)

1. (transitive) To dress in mittens; to put a mitten on.

Anagrams

• titmen

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German

Adverb

mitten

1. In the middle.

   Mitten auf der Straße lag ein toter Hund.

   In the middle of the street lay a dead dog.

Related terms

• inmitten
• zumitten

Further reading

• “mitten” in Duden online

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Swedish

Noun

mitten

1. (deprecated template usage) definite singular of mitt